 | System x3500 (7977-J2x)
Network Server IBM | 02 Jun 2010
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| Windows Server 2008 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The IBM System x3500 delivers unprecedented performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications. With quad-core processor performance at lower power consumption per core, the x3500 offers leading-edge capacity and high-speed I/O scalability. A long-life platform with 24-month availability, the x3500 minimizes deployment and support concerns.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 5 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | SPE169AUS-1.69 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5420 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | 20 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 32-bit/33MHz PCI 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X Serial 4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH , IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 3 IBM
146 GB 15K 3.5-inch SAS Hot-Swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS GSA-H10N , IDE |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-21.1 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
132157
Adapters and Drivers
| ATI ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010 | Driver Size: 720064 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 196776 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 95a2600742be897aff5bff041657a5c4 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 143392 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 34e0e371a60792e16ef8982b1df4fcb3 | |||||||||
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| Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 46680 | ||||||||
| Checksum: d023f0afd755d8755871ba7f8b63c70a | |||||||||
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